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Fifty steps of ivory, and each step guarded by golden lions. Crossed the desert on a swift dromedary. The difference between a camel and a dromedary is the difference between a hack and a thorough-bred horse. That celestial alphabet known to the true Cabalist. The last of the Seljuks had expired.
Constance coloured, and her heart beat violently; but she answered indifferently, and turned away. The next morning they set off for Italy. But within one week from that day, what a change awaited Constance! After all, an astrologer, nay, a cabalist is not so monstrous a prodigy in the nineteenth century!
Lurya, the great German Egyptian Cabalist, with Vital, the Italian alchemist, sojourned to the grave of Simon bar Yochai, its fabled author.
Doctor Graziano, or Baloardo Grazian, is a pedant, a philosopher, grammarian, rhetorician, astronomer, cabalist, a savant of the first water, boasting of his degree from Bologna, trailing the gown of that august university. Pompous in phrase and person, his speech is crammed with lawyer's jargon and quibbles, with distorted Latin and ridiculous metaphors.
The Cabalist started up, seized him, and held him in his careful grasp, foaming and in convulsions. 'Jabaster, Jabaster! 'I am here, my child. 'The Lord hath spoken. 'The Lord is our refuge. Calm thyself, son of David, and tell me all. 'I have been sleeping, master; is it not so? 'Even so, my child.
Be he with the Lord, and we shall prosper. It was at sunset, on the third day after the arrival of Alroy at the cave of the Cabalist, that the Prince of the Captivity commenced his pilgrimage in quest of the sceptre of Solomon. Silently the pilgrim and his master took their way to the brink of the ravine, and there they stopped to part, perhaps forever. 'It is a bitter moment, Alroy.
But be warned that you would be a lost man should you communicate it to a profane person." "Don't be uneasy," said the abbe. "I have a strong desire to know so fine a secret, but I will not conceal from you that I do not expect any effect from it, as I do not believe in Sylphs. Instruct me, if you please." "You request me?" replied the cabalist.
'We linger, exclaimed the Cabalist, 'we linger. Oh! in vain we quell the feelings of our kind. God, God bless and be with thee! Art sure thou hast all? thy dagger and thy wallet? That staff has seen some service. I cut it on the Jordan. Ah! that I could be thy mate! 'Twould be nothing then. At the worst to die together. Such a fate seems sweeter now than parting. I'll watch thy star, my child.
There is a wondrous Mystery in this, A mighty Blessing does attend your Fates. How this agrees with what the learned Cabalist inform'd me of last Night! He said, that great Iredonozor, the Emperor of the Moon, was enamour'd on a fair Mortal.
Without doubt my face must have betrayed the state of anxiety I was in; because the great cabalist, having looked at me, asked me if I was not afraid that an engagement, guarded by conditions so severe, would be troublesome to my youth. "I am able to reassure you," he added.
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